Charters
[tʃɑ:təz]
Examples
- Robert Burns was right when he preferred poetry to charters. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots make a democracy out of an illiterate people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The boss, and the bosslet, the heeler--the men who are it--all are there exercising the real power, the power that independently of charters and elections decides what shall happen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Turbaria Bruaria--the right of cutting heath-turf--occurs in charters relating to the district. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But it was only in 1620 that the northern region began to be settled, and that under fresh charters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Wilhelmina